You're right, I did end up surviving for most of my life.
[ A laugh. A joke. ]
I think that I believe in optimism because my circumstances would be far... far harder to bear.
[ He stopped himself in the middle of that, switches to something equally true. ]
It's not because I have any better evidence that things will get better, you know. I'm awful at predicting the future, really. I'm optimistic simply because things must get better, rather than any certainty that things will, if you understand my meaning.
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[ A laugh. A joke. ]
I think that I believe in optimism because my circumstances would be far... far harder to bear.
[ He stopped himself in the middle of that, switches to something equally true. ]
It's not because I have any better evidence that things will get better, you know. I'm awful at predicting the future, really. I'm optimistic simply because things must get better, rather than any certainty that things will, if you understand my meaning.